12/7/12 – LitStack’s 2 A Day Giveaway: The Dead of Winter by Lee Collins

Cora and her husband hunt things – things that shouldn’t exist.When the marshal of Leadville, Colorado, comes across a pair of mysterious deaths, he turns to Cora to find the creature responsible. But if Cora is to overcome the unnatural tide threatening to consume the small town, she must first confront her own tragic past as well as her present.

A stunning supernatural novel that will be quickly joined by a very welcome sequel, She Returns From War, in February 2013.

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On this day, October 16, in 1854, Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was not known so much for being a writer (although he was very talented: think The Picture of Dorian Grey – his only novel – or the wildly popular play, The Importance of Being Earnest) as a sparkling social personality, known for his “biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation.” In 1895, a feud erupted between Wilde and the father of his male paramour, landing Wilde in jail for two years, which broke his health, his wealth, and weighed heavily on his spirit. The dashing, glamorous aesthetic died penniless of cerebral meningitis in 1900; he was barely 46.